Quantum Algorithms for the Physical Layer: Potential Applications to Physical Layer Security

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 13; pp. 13988 - 14009
• Main Authors: Matsumine, Toshiki, Ochiai, Hideki, Shikata, Junji
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2025
• Subjects: Annealing; Approximation algorithms; Computers; Cryptography; Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms; Logic gates; multi-input multi-output (MIMO); Optimization; physical layer security (PLS); Quantum algorithm; quantum algorithms; Quantum annealing; quantum annealing (QA); quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA); Quantum computing; Qubit; reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS); secret key generation (SKG)

The field of quantum technologies has garnered considerable interest and witnessed noteworthy progress in recent years. It is also anticipated that these technologies will continue to flourish and exert a considerable influence on society, i.e., a plethora of real-world problems that cannot be solve...